Mythe - Reviewed by Experts and Consumers at The Wormwood Society
Editor reviews
Overall rating
1.9
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Ordering
On the lower end of US offerings
Overall rating
2.4
Appearance
3.0
Louche
3.0
Aroma
3.0
Flavor / Mouthfeel
2.0
Finish
1.0
Overall
2.0
Color: A pale greenish yellow.
Louche: Unlike other reviews, I got a pretty decent louche with lots of greens, blues and whites.
Aroma: Very herbal. I pick up cinnamon and flowers, but with a tinge of something like vinegar. No real wormwood or anise.
Flavor: Biting acridity and bitterness. There are hints of sweetness at the forefront, but followed by highly astringent and bitter flavors. It's tough to even finish the sample size I poured.
Finish: Same acrid flavors are present in the finish. Luckily it doesn't last that long.
Overall: If you're stuck with a bottle, you might want to try it with a lot of sugar. It might help. I'd never buy it though.
Louche: Unlike other reviews, I got a pretty decent louche with lots of greens, blues and whites.
Aroma: Very herbal. I pick up cinnamon and flowers, but with a tinge of something like vinegar. No real wormwood or anise.
Flavor: Biting acridity and bitterness. There are hints of sweetness at the forefront, but followed by highly astringent and bitter flavors. It's tough to even finish the sample size I poured.
Finish: Same acrid flavors are present in the finish. Luckily it doesn't last that long.
Overall: If you're stuck with a bottle, you might want to try it with a lot of sugar. It might help. I'd never buy it though.
Please keep on producing pastis!
(Updated: July 01, 2008)
Overall rating
1.5
Appearance
3.0
Louche
2.0
Aroma
1.0
Flavor / Mouthfeel
1.0
Finish
1.0
Overall
1.0
Color: that olive color is somewhat attractive, nothing that looks really artificial here, just a bit unusual.
Louche: the louche is too slow to form and does not complete. The result is translucent, a half louche.
Aroma: alcohol comes first, then a citronella candle-like scent, and finally a (kinda) wormwood perfume. All in all, after you get over that strong alcohol nose, you're left with a medicinal aroma, something definitely not absinthe-like.
Taste: I wished the scoring system would include "1/2" because that's all this product deserves. The taste is unpleasantly bitter and chemical, with a melissa flavor but again in a medicinal way. The vervain they macerate must have changed the taste of individual herbs badly. It also bites, but not from a savory and fruity green anise, it just bites...
Finish: It leaves nothing on your palate, except a little lemonish note and bitterness.
Overall: If you've already bought a bottle of that 'thing', better sink it now and drink a cough syrup instead, at least you would know why the taste is medicinal!
The Elie-Arnaud Denoix distillery produces a rather nice Pastis (Pastis des Terres Rouges) and should have better remained in that direction instead of trying to produce a thujone-free 'absinthe'. Sort of like the Domaines de Provence distillery who produces a very good pastis (Henry Bardouin) and a bad 'absinthe' (Absente).
Additional note: E.-A.D. is now sold in the US under the name "MYTHE".
mthuilli
Louche: the louche is too slow to form and does not complete. The result is translucent, a half louche.
Aroma: alcohol comes first, then a citronella candle-like scent, and finally a (kinda) wormwood perfume. All in all, after you get over that strong alcohol nose, you're left with a medicinal aroma, something definitely not absinthe-like.
Taste: I wished the scoring system would include "1/2" because that's all this product deserves. The taste is unpleasantly bitter and chemical, with a melissa flavor but again in a medicinal way. The vervain they macerate must have changed the taste of individual herbs badly. It also bites, but not from a savory and fruity green anise, it just bites...
Finish: It leaves nothing on your palate, except a little lemonish note and bitterness.
Overall: If you've already bought a bottle of that 'thing', better sink it now and drink a cough syrup instead, at least you would know why the taste is medicinal!
The Elie-Arnaud Denoix distillery produces a rather nice Pastis (Pastis des Terres Rouges) and should have better remained in that direction instead of trying to produce a thujone-free 'absinthe'. Sort of like the Domaines de Provence distillery who produces a very good pastis (Henry Bardouin) and a bad 'absinthe' (Absente).
Additional note: E.-A.D. is now sold in the US under the name "MYTHE".
mthuilli
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